Taking the number one spot at the box office is 'Backrooms,' a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' series of YouTube videos featuring eerie found footage of a mysterious office space (drawn from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Directed by Parsons, 'Backrooms' made $38 million on Friday, and is expected to bring in a total of $80 million to $90 million at the domestic box office over this weekend alone. For indie studio A24, that's its biggest opening by far ' the previous record was held by 'Civil War,' which made $25.7 in its first weekend of release. The number two film, 'Obsession,' is pulling off something that's arguably even more impressive. True, it made a mere $8 million on Friday, with an estimated weekend haul of $28.5 million ' but the movie (about a romantic wish gone nightmarishly wrong) already made more money in its second weekend than its first, and now its third weekend is set to grow another 19 percent. For context, most wide release films normally fall...
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